A few months back, the Monolith-developed shooter offered a wacky if inconsistent take on criminals and crusaders in Batman’s hometown. Gotham City Impostors imagined what ordinary folks who idolised the Dark Knight and the Clown Prince of Crime would do if let loose in all-out gunfights.
Xenoblade Chronicles taught me an important lesson: Never trust the Internet.
You see, for the past few months, everybody everywhere on the web has been hyping the hell out of Monolith Soft’s new Wii role-playing game, which publisher Nintendo will release in the United States this Friday (though it’s been out in Europe for almost a year, and in Japan for close to two).
Batman’s had lots of sidekicks over the years. Imps from other dimensions, mask-wearing dogs and his own kill-crazy offspring have leapt from the shadows with the DC Comics superhero. He’s trained them, scolded them and in case of Ace the Bat-hound, probably picked up their poop while out on patrol. But there’s been a tacit Bat-approval for all of those partners.
We ran impressions of the private beta for Gotham City Impostors a while back and now everyone with an Xbox or PS3 can get their taste Monolith’s upcoming multiplayer FPS. It’s your chance to be an overweight Bat-worshipper or finally get to blow stuff up while wearing clown shoes. Go grab it on PlayStation Network or Xbox Live, citizen.
With the console beta test for Monolith’s downloadable dose of bat on clown violence still ramping up, Warner Bros has gently pushed the release date for Gotham City Impostors from January into February. Someone notify Julian Day!
Now that November’s PC beta test has come and gone, Warner Bros. and Monolith are ready to get console players into the dopple-gangbanger fun of Gotham City Impostors.
